From: Petr Pisar <petr.pisar@atlas.cz>
To: Util-Linux <util-linux@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] for "Mistakes in messages" reported by Petr Pisar
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 07:04:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130606050412.GA3632@album.bayer.uni.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1370462889.27341.140661240351977.05B18AA0@webmail.messagingengine.com>
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On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 10:08:09PM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
>
> Some of the things he reported were already fixed, and one thing
> is not an error, I think: "Partition overlap on the disk." -- here the
> word "Partition" is an adjective and "overlap" a noun. "Partitions
> overlap on the disk." doesn't make it any clearer, in my opinion.
>
My English is terrible, but since when `partion' is an adjective
<http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=partition>?
My syntactical parser says:
Partitions[subject,noun,plural] overlap[predicate,verb] on the disk[adverbial,
adverb].
Your explanation is missing a predicate in the sentence.
-- Petr
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-06 5:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-05 20:08 [patch] for "Mistakes in messages" reported by Petr Pisar Benno Schulenberg
2013-06-06 5:04 ` Petr Pisar [this message]
2013-06-06 19:20 ` Benno Schulenberg
2013-06-07 10:30 ` Karel Zak
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